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Excellent breakdown of why Google Print != Indexing Web Pages

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One of the arguments for Google Print is that it’s the same as crawling the web and making that index searchable. A comment on Slashdot nukes that theory very, very neatly. I’m going to quote the whole thing, but credit is due to Bulmakau. I am sure many will ask what the difference between books […]

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Tipping point

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WinZip 10.0 was released today. Hardly anyone noticed. WinZip is one of those eponymous applications that has outlived itself. It’s not that no one compresses data anymore, but WinZip has started the downward spiral into obscurity. At one point, one couldn’t get around without WinZip. In the days when hard drives were measured in megabytes […]

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Google Print

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I haven’t written specifically about Google Print (although I’ve alluded to it a couple of times), but I thought, hey, better late than never. There are literally millions of posts all over the Web about this, so I won’t bore you with a recap. What I will do is ask a question that has been […]

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Why Does God Hate Amputees?

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A totally biased, simple, attack on the religious. It’s the same, tired, “religious people are mindless idiots” argument. WIth a clever title. And lots of straw men. Actually, one big straw man, but that never seems to matter. By the way, God is bad because men are mortal. And he doesn’t exist because the Bible […]

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Digital Lust – Deskloops

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Imagine all of your windows in a continuous strip, accessible by moving your cursor to the side of your screen. Imagine being able to save an entire set of windows and load them later on. This is Deskloops. Eye candy? Oh yeah. But since when has that stopped anyone (I’m looking at you, iTunes)? Download […]